What is the word in which government officials become greater in authority untruthfully or wrongfully?
Or to be more specific, what is the word where – for example – a person becomes a king because of coup or another untruthful reason.
I know there is a word…I saw it on wikipedia one time!!
Please and thank you!
The verb form of the word is: "usurp."
"The Sheriff of Nottingham wanted to USURP the power of the King’s Guard."
The person who ‘usurps’ is called a USURPER.
"Dick Cheney attempted to be a USURPER of the power of the President to be his own."
The act of ‘usurping’ power is called USURPATION.
"A tripartite governmental system of checks-and-balances by means of independent branches is one way to guard against the unwarranted USURPATION of power."
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